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Bonds Plans to Check Out After 2008 Season

Posted Aug 14, 07 12:51 AM CDT in US,  Sports 

(Newser) – Baseball's controversial new home run king will likely pack it in after the 2008 season. Barry Bonds, who passed Hank Aaron's mark of 755 career home runs last week, said he hopes to keep slugging only one more year and try to reach his remaining goals--3,000 hits and a World Series ring. "I don't think two years I can take," he confessed.

Bonds, whose career has been dogged by suspicions of steroid use, currently has 758 homers and 2,919 hits. He hopes to end his career in San Francisco. "I'm a Giant. That's who I am. It would be hard for me to take that uniform off," the 43-year-old outfielder admitted yesterday.

Source Associated Press

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San Francisco Giants' Barry Bonds hits his 758th career home run off Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Matt Morris in the third inning of a baseball game in San Francisco, Friday, Aug. 10, 2007. (AP Photo/Marcio...   (Associated Press)
San Francisco Giants' Barry Bonds, who played his first seven seasons in the major leagues with the Pittsburgh Pirates, is honored between games of a twi-night double header against the Pittsburgh Pirates...   (Associated Press)
San Francisco Giants' Barry Bonds, playing as a pinch hitter, fouls out against the Washington Nationals during the eighth inning of their baseball game in San Francisco, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2007. Washington...   (Associated Press)
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